Failure of spermatogenesis to recover despite the presence of a spermatogonia in the irradiated LBNF1 rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1200-1208

  Kangasniemi, Marko ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^b   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029872649     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.6.1200     Document Type: Article

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